News & Events
A collection of CGIAR featured news and upcoming events
Featured news
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Agrifood Systems as Part of the Solution: Spotlight Conversations on Agriculture Innovation
30.01.23Are we investing enough to end hunger by 2030, the date set for its termination…
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Policy seminar: Leveraging Kenya’s new Bottom-Up Economic Plan for food system transformation
21.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Kenya’s new government has developed an ambitious Bottom-Up Economic Plan to tackle complex dome…
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Birds eye view of CGIAR’s Innovation Packages and Scaling Readiness (IPSR)
16.12.22Climate, political and economic crises are putting millions at risk of poverty and hunger. We…
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CGIAR Wins International Recognition for Progress in Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
15.12.22Paris, France, December 15, 2022 – CGIAR took top prize in the “Diversity and Inclusion” ca…
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Can we Still End Hunger by 2030? CGIAR and the Economist Discuss What it Will Take
13.12.22The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, to end hunger by 2030, has become…
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25th Meeting of the System Board & Retreat – A Communique
12.12.22The CGIAR System Board meeting and retreat, held on December 8-9, 2022, in Nairobi, was…
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Upcoming events
Now until 04 Mar. 2023
News from the Centers and Programs
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Solar powered dryers boost peanut production in Togo
03.02.23-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Solar powered peanut dryers in Togo are helping women-run cooperatives reduce their workload and inc…
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FishBase: An increasingly valuable resource
03.02.23-
Big data
What do researchers in fields as diverse as agriculture, mathematics, economics, psychology and even…
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What do we know about the future of rice in relation to food system transformation?
02.02.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
By Harold Valera and Valerien Pede Food, land, and water systems face daunting challenges in…
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ILRI and CGIAR appoint Professor Appolinaire Djikeng as Director General of ILRI and CGIAR Senior Director of Livestock-Based Systems
02.02.23The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Board of Trustees and CGIAR have appointed Pro…
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Asia's 'blue capital' can help alleviate hunger and poverty
02.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An irony of the current global economic system is that it is depleting the very…
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Remote-sensing models to enhance Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) surveillance in Africa
01.02.23The IITA–CGIAR team has published a method using drones and satellite imager-based remote sens…
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